Twin traders: rise of the rich kids

Two City traders aged 25 are on top of the world with stellar incomes. They tell Jonathan Milne how its done

Monday morning and Lawrie Inman, a confident young east London-based futures trader in T-shirt and trainers, is in his Bishopsgate office at 6.30. While the interior designers are redecorating the three-bedroom Shoreditch apartment he has just bought, and installing an Xbox and table football in the games room, he is hungry to start making money.

And make money he does: last April he made £700,000 in one hour. How? By watching a televised speech by the chairman of the European Central Bank and realising that there would be no increase in interest rates. While others waited for confirmation Inman jumped in and cemented some long-term trades.

Now he grabs a bowl of Rice Krispies and a banana, powers up the seven monitors that surround his desk, and prepares for a deluge of data. The European markets are about to open, and today could be another seven-digit day for him on